Noradrenergic DSP-4 lesions aggravate impairment of working memory produced by hippocampal muscarinic blockade in rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 257-261

  Ohno, Masuo ^a   Yoshimatsu, Ayako ^a   Kobayashi, Masako ^a   Watanabe, Shigenori ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; DSP 4 (N (2 Chloroethyl) N ethyl 2 bromobenzylamine); Hippocampus; Noradrenaline; Scopolamine; Working memory

Indexed keywords

2 BROMO N (2 CHLOROETHYL) N ETHYLBENZYLAMINE; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; NORADRENALIN; SCOPOLAMINE; SEROTONIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BENZYLAMINES; DOPAMINE; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICROINJECTIONS; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; NEUROTOXINS; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCOPOLAMINE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030908015     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(96)00353-X     Document Type: Article

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